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We are having a free Family Fun Day!

Join us this Saturday 19th July from 13.00 – 16.00 at the Milton Gardens Community Hall for an acrobatics and dance filled day. There will be a special dance and acrobatics showcase from our youth program, along with a screening of a film they made throughout the summer term. You can take part in our free…
MYC Summer performances!

Mimbre Youth Company is having an exciting summer! This month they will perform in our participatory show ‘Watching The World Go By’ at Watch This Space. Check out the rest of Watch This Space’s exciting program here! www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover-more/welcome-to-the-national-theatre/watch-this-space-festival They are also taking part in the Great British Anniversary Carnival at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park!…
Summer Tour updates

Our summer tour is in full swing and it’s been great so far! Looking forward to heading to Mouth of Tyne this weekend! For an updated version of our schedule please visit: https://mimbre.co.uk/tours/current/
Lina directs ‘Mergence’: a stunning ensemble show at the national Centre for Circus Arts

Don’t miss out on Lina’s show at the national centre for circus arts this weekend! The second year students have been working hard for the past three weeks on Mergence, an ensemble show that ties together different circus disciplines. Show times Thursday 10th July: 19.30 Friday 11th July: 19.30 Saturday 12th July: 15.00…
Good News!

Mimbre are incredibly proud to have been offered continued support by Arts Council England as a National Portfolio Organisation. We’ve got plans for bigger, more exciting and more innovative acrobatic theatre and the support and recognition of ACE will help us to achieve that. In the coming years you will see us performing in flats…
Performance opportunity with Mimbre!

Would you like to perform with Mimbre? Join the cast of Bench at the Kingston Festival to work on a participatory collaboration, Watching The World Go By. We will run workshops on Wednesday 2nd & Friday 4th July, to learn choreographies from the show. Workshop participants will then perform alongside the cast on Saturday afternoon…
Watching the World Go By goes to the Igniyion Festival in Kingston upon Thames!

On the 5th of July we are heading down to Kingston upon Thames to take part in the brilliant Ignition Festival! We will be performing Watching the World Go By assisted by dance students from the university! On the 12th of July the Festival is hosting an amazing evening of dance with imaginative new short…
Family day at Milton Garden!

Last week we hosted a family and friends day with our Milton Gardens youth groups. All the children, including the little ones, showed their pals how to warm up, stretch, do flawless cart wheels, and then some serious acrobalance moves! We were really impressed with their teaching skills and at how good they are all…
Bench at Greenwich and Docklands International Festival this weekend

Mimbre’s new performance Bench, coming to Greenwich and Docklands International Festival in London as part of Greenwich Fair this weekend the 21-22 June and Tuesday the 24th of June at Dancing City. Here Lina Johansson – joint Artistic Director for Mimbre, share a little window into the process of creating Bench. An annoying bug in our system…
Mimbre hosts Lord of the Flies try-out workshop!

Last year our Mimbre Youth Company took part in RIOT OFFspring, at London’s celebrated dance space Sadler’s Wells. This unique intergenerational collaboration based on Stravinsky’s ‘The rite of Spring’, was an amazing and exciting opportunity for our young people and has marked them for life! This year we are supporting Sadler’s Wells, in their search…